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Sofia Quaglia

Sofia Quaglia

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Join date: Jun 6, 2023

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Sofia Quaglia is a freelance science journalist writing about all things environment, animals, health, and the mind. Her work regularly appears in The Guardian, National Geographic, Popular Science, Inverse, The New York Times, BBC, and more. This is one of her favorite stories she's ever worked on: https://grist.org/justice/asbestos-abatement-covid-construction-health-risks-new-york/

Since September 2021 she's been on a mission to travel the world: she spends each month working remotely from a different country.

In a lot of the work she does as a journalist, hours of conversations with researchers have to be condensed into a couple of quotes for a succinct article. But in "Behind The Science", she'll be conducting in-depth interviews with scientists about their life's work and sharing all of that exclusive deep-dive with readers upfront.

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Oct 26, 2023 ∙ 5 min

How does our brain understand the passing of time?

Joe Paton, head of the Learning Lab at the Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme, has been researching the neurological principles by which the brain gains access to timekeeping, a fundamental dimension of our experience on Earth. He and his team have narrowed down a population of neurons in the striatum, a deep brain region, that possess a rich capacity to generate time-varying patterns of activity. “You can see this network of neurons in a dish, if you provide some input, there's going to be...

Sep 28, 2023 ∙ 9 min

How the brain memorizes mundane events

An interview with Zachariah Reagh, a brain scientist at Washington University. Do you remember what you did on this day six months ago? Do you remember who you were with? Or where you were? Zachariah Reagh, Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has a new paper out in Nature Communications about how the brain remembers everyday-events by making mental sketches of people and contexts and copy-pasting them around different scenarios. I’m a...

Aug 24, 2023 ∙ 9 min

Is there a link between personality and cognitive abilities?

This new meta-analysis gets to the bottom of the question. A new, exhaustive study published in the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals some striking new relationships between personality and cognitive abilities. I’m a science journalist, and my work — which has appeared in the New York Times, Guardian, BBC, and National Geographic — is about telling stories of how the mind works. I met with the researchers behind the paper, Kevin Stanek and Deniz...

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